Colloquium on university and college history
Summer term 2025
In the summer semester 2025, the research project “The TH Dresden under National Socialism” continues its successful series Colloquium on the History of Higher Education. This interdisciplinary lecture series provides a forum for presentations and discussions on the history of universities and higher education institutions in the context of science, politics, and society – with a particular focus on the 20th century.
Renowned scholars from Germany and abroad, as well as early-career researchers, will present current projects and new perspectives. All interested parties – both within and beyond the university – are warmly invited to attend.
Further information and material can be found in our OPAL group.
Participation via Zoom.
Sommersemester 2025
| 23.04.2025 | Dr. Sören Flachowsky (HU Berlin) |
Kampf um die Lithosphäre. Geologische Ressortforschung in Deutschland 1914–1945 |
| 07.05.2025 | PD Dr. Jürgen Kilian (TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Universität Bayreuth) |
Die Reichsanstalt für Wasser- und Luftgüte im Nationalsozialismus |
| 04.06.2025 | Felix Pankonin (Netzwerkstatt, Hillersche Villa, Zittau) | Die Grenzlandbibliothek in Zittau. Annäherung an die Alltagsgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus im ländlichen Raum |
| 25.06.2025 | Dr. Christian Voller (Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg) |
Aus der Dämmerung. Über einige methodische Probleme die Vorgeschichte von etwas zu schreiben |
| 02.07.2025 | Michael Thoß (Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, Dresden) | IDOHIST – Dokumentation, Evaluation und Visualisierung digitaler Forschungsdaten zur Präsenz des Nationalsozialismus im Dresdner Stadtbild 1925–1945 |
| 09.07.2025 | Prof. Dr. Peer Pasternack (Universität Halle-Wittenberg) |
Phantomschmerzen – Zwei universitätshistorische Beispiel im Vergleich: Universität Wittenberg nach 1817 und ostdeutsche Hochschulen nach 1990 |
Winter semester 2024/25
In the winter semester 2024/25, the colloquium on college and university history started for the first time: fortnightly every Wednesday, 7th DS (18:30-20:00), HSZ/101.
| 06.11.2024 | Dr. Lutz Kreller (Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin) | Lawyers in the wrong. The Nazi burden on Otto Palandt (1877-1951) and Heinrich Schönfelder (1902-1944) |
| 13.11.2024 | Prof. i. R. Dr. Manfred Heinemann (Leibniz University Hannover) | The Saxon Higher Education Commission: Its involvement in the reorganization of the Saxon higher education system (1991-1993) |
| 27.11.2024 | Grit Bakemeier (TU Dresden, Department of Forest Sciences) | The Tharandt Forestry Library during the Nazi era (workshop session) |
| 11.12.2024 | Dr. Martin Göllnitz (Philipps University Marburg) | The hour of the functionaries. Options for action by student Nazi leaders using the example of a "borderland university" (1927-1945) |
| 15.01.2025 | Jutta Wiese, M.A. (Dresden Main State Archives) | National Socialist four-year planning and dictated research funding - four-year plan institutes at the TH Dresden and the Bergakademie Freiberg |
| 29.01.2025 | Prof. Dr. Mark Walker (Union College, Schenectady, New York) | Compromises with Hitler: Werner Heisenberg, Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker and National Socialism |
| 05.02.2025 | Rebekka Roschy, M.A. (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden) | The Information Processing Section of TU Dresden and the beginnings of AI research in the GDR - a workshop report |